Have read a few comments over this gen where people have said platform X has the best games based on either the top 10 metacritic scores or top 20, thought I'd do an average of the total scores for each Gen 8 platform to see whats what.
Results are:
Wii U: 68.14% from 206 games
XB1: 70.64% from 223 games
PS4: 72.06% from 286 games
Personally I was surprised by both Nintendo and XB1 scores. Nintendo because I thought it would be higher given the calibre of Nintendo and the lower amount of shovelware this gen, and XB1 because its quite close to the PS4 despite known performance deficits especially in 3rd party games. PS4 comes out on top and with the most reviewed games, impressive despite being on the market a full year less than the Wii U.
Overall quite close despite the rhetoric that comes out sometimes, anyone else surprised?
UPDATE
Many people have asked for more breakdown of the numbers to try and whittle out any impact of shovelware or really low scores on the overall average. So I've broken the numbers down into score ranges, as below:
| PS4 | Wii U | XB1 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Range | Games | Percentage (%) | Games | Percentage (%) | Games | Percentage (%) |
| <=40% | 7 | 2.34% | 18 | 8.74% | 4 | 1.79% |
|
>40 - 50% |
10 | 3.34% | 13 | 6.31% | 13 | 5.80% |
| >50 - 60% | 31 | 10.37% | 22 | 10.68% | 23 | 10.27% |
| >60 - 70% | 61 | 20.40% | 40 | 19.42% | 47 | 20.98% |
| >70 - 80% | 115 | 38.46% | 66 | 32.04% | 93 | 41.52% |
| >80 - 90% | 69 | 23.08% | 43 | 20.87% | 40 | 17.86% |
| >90% | 6 | 2.01% | 4 | 1.94% | 3 | 1.34% |
From the above, you can see that PS4 retains the lead with number and percentage of games with a metacritic score of >90%, >80%, >70% and >60%.
| Metacritic score | PS4 | Wii U | XB1 |
|---|---|---|---|
| > 90% | 2.01% | 1.94% | 1.34% |
| > 80% | 25.08% | 22.82% | 19.20% |
| > 70% | 63.55% | 54.85% | 60.71% |
| > 60% | 83.95% | 74.27% | 81.70% |
Median
PS4 - 74%
Wii U - 72%
XB1 - 73%
Again, pretty similar numbers but consistently in favour of the PS4. I haven't broken it down by publisher yet, that will take much more time. Has the above information changed anyones thoughts?
EDIT - I have no idea whats going wrong with the headers of the table, obviously each platform has two columns, one for number of games and one for percentage of total games.
